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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

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Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

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Governments never learn. Only people learn.

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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: July 31st, 1912

Died: November 16th, 2006

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